Consolidation

The pharmaceutical industry seems besieged on all sides by declining R&D productivity, expiring patents and relentless downward pricing pressure. One effect of this onslaught has been an upsurge in the level of consolidation as industry players attempt to cut costs, expand research pipelines and lengthen geographic reach.

UPDATE

31-Jul-2015 - Beginning Sept. 30, Massachusetts-based CRO (contract research organization) Parexel will lay off as many as 125 of the 450 employees it brought on from GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) in North Carolina late last...

Exclusive interview

05-Mar-2015 - Higher capacity utilization is improving prices across the non-clinical research sector according to Huntingdon Life Sciences CEO Brian Cass, who told Outsourcing-pharma.com the preclinical CRO may add scale to US...

29-Sep-2014 - CRO PPD has exercised its option to acquire the remaining minority ownership interest of X-Chem for an undisclosed sum. X-Chem will continue to operate as a small molecule discovery company...

Dispatches from ChemOutsourcing

17-Sep-2014 - As contract manufacturers continue to consolidate
, some in the industry are questioning whether the resulting companies have the ability to offer the same services as the former individual companies.